Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... meanings . It is only in the technical vocabularies of the exact sciences that certain words , each coined to name one definite thing , are used under the formula : one word = one meaning . And even these words , like " vitamin , " get ...
... meanings . It is only in the technical vocabularies of the exact sciences that certain words , each coined to name one definite thing , are used under the formula : one word = one meaning . And even these words , like " vitamin , " get ...
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... meaning of a poem is very much more than the mere sense of it , as we have already suggested . A full meaning may be thought of as having at least three components besides the sense the inten- tion , feeling , and tone . In oral ...
... meaning of a poem is very much more than the mere sense of it , as we have already suggested . A full meaning may be thought of as having at least three components besides the sense the inten- tion , feeling , and tone . In oral ...
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... MEANING , an aspect of the poem- reading - experience , 26 f . , 46-51 , 161 ff .; the " true " meaning , what the poet meant , 172 , 182 f . , 192 ; less important in song - lyrics , 380 ; three satirical poems on meaning , 539 , 524 ...
... MEANING , an aspect of the poem- reading - experience , 26 f . , 46-51 , 161 ff .; the " true " meaning , what the poet meant , 172 , 182 f . , 192 ; less important in song - lyrics , 380 ; three satirical poems on meaning , 539 , 524 ...
Contents
ORIENTATION TO POETRY i Preconceptions and Pointers | 3 |
In Search of Poetry | 21 |
Language and Art | 42 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman aloud Amy Lowell anapestic attitudes auditory ballad Beauty breath called chapter clouds critical dead death dream E. E. Cummings earth emotional response experience eye-movements eyes free imagery free verse Frost full meaning give hand hath heard heart heaven I. A. Richards iambic interpretation John Keats King language listening look Lord Lord Randal Louis Untermeyer lyric metrical pattern metrical variation mind's-ear mood never night over-all meaning persons phrase poem poem-experience poem-reading-experience poet poetic form poetic rhythm poetry printed verses prose reader reading recorded reread rime Robert Robert Frost rose Sea-Fever sense pattern silent sing song sonnet sort soul sound pattern speech stanza stanzaic form stir stressed SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY sweet syllables T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought tion tone translation turn Vincent Millay visual voice wind words